Senate President Rob McColley and Finance Chairman Jerry Cirino Statement on Governor's Veto Message

Editor's note:

The following statement is from Senate President Rob McColley and Finance Chairman Jerry Cirino regarding the governor's line item veto of the property tax reform passed by the General Assembly as part of the new Biennial Operating Budget. The General Assembly has the remainder of the 136th GA to consider veto overrides. The Constitution requires a 3/5ths vote to override a veto. That would equal 20 votes of the 33 member Senate, and 60 votes of the 99 member House. Read the news release here.

We appreciate the governor’s support of our significant income tax reform that reduces the tax burden on Ohioans by moving to a single flat income tax bracket.

Yet it is puzzling that at a time when Ohioans are demanding a reduction in their property tax burden, the governor vetoed all of the General Assembly's reforms, which would have contained the rate of growth of property tax across the state, added more accountability to local taxing subdivisions, and would have created more ballot transparency to levies.

These are kitchen table issues that hard working families understand, and the General Assembly needs to strongly consider acting on their behalf to implement these vital changes that would return the property tax system to its cost controlled guardrails as originally intended.